Haas’ 2022 automobile has taken to the monitor for the primary time at a filming day at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya.
Like a number of groups do in preseason, Haas has arrived in Spain a number of days early forward of the primary preseason check of the yr.
Haas was the primary workforce to unveil its 2022 automobile, though it solely revealed digital renderings of what appeared like a fundamental present automobile relatively than an in depth mannequin of the actual factor.
On Monday morning its new automobile rolled out of the storage in Spain with Nikita Mazepin on the wheel. As proven within the renderings launched earlier this month the automobile has retained the purple, blue and white colors of Mazepin’s father Dimitry’s firm Uralkali, the workforce’s title sponsor.
Mazepin’s teammate Mick Schumacher, son of seven-time world champion Michael, is anticipated to get a while within the automobile later within the day.
Haas successfully wrote off the 2021 season in favour of 2022, deciding to focus most of its consideration on this yr’s automobile design.
Because of this, the American workforce seems to have a reasonably detailed design, particularly in direction of the again of the automobile.
The workforce has additionally adopted an fascinating model of the sidepod ‘louvres’ seen on the Aston Martin and Ferrari vehicles. The gaps within the facet bodywork have been in contrast on-line to cheese graters and shark fins.
Haas’ louvres are minimize right into a black carbon fibre part of bodywork on prime of the facet pods, though restricted pictures of the automobile made it laborious to see the design intimately.
Haas’ filming day marks one other 2022 automobile seen within the flesh. Alpine is launching its automobile on Monday, though it’s unclear whether or not it’s a livery launch or a full reveal of the brand new automobile.
Purple Bull is the largest title but to disclose its new automobile. The workforce launched a brand new livery on a present automobile earlier this month however doesn’t plan to disclose the true design of its 2022 automobile till the primary morning of testing on Feb. 23.
